Word: dixielanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying clarinet. The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon...
...wagon began to roll last fall when Jimmy Dorsey played hooky from his big dance band long enough to record Johnson Rag and a Dixieland version of Charley My Boy with an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band. The relaxed, free-wheeling music caught the public's ear, and the Dorseylanders quickly followed with an album including such old standards as Jazz Me Blues, South Rampart Street Parade, and High Society. The album soon hit Variety's list of the top-five bestsellers, has stayed there for six weeks...
...Even Dixielander Bob Crosby, who had given up his loud brass and fast beat after the war because "guys are sick and tired of jump stuff," was back on board. Last week he and his Bobcats were together again to record Dixieland versions of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever and Washington Post, which would have sounded almost natural coming over the tail gate of an oldtime New Orleans jazz wagon. "People are tired of love songs and weepy ballads," said Bob. "They want happy music...